{"id":94475,"date":"2019-10-29T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94475"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:48:38","slug":"five-northern-groups-decide-against-voting-for-sinhala-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/29\/five-northern-groups-decide-against-voting-for-sinhala-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Northern groups decide against voting for Sinhala Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Five Northern groups yesterday (29) decided against voting for any Sinhala candidate at the forthcoming Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The groups that took such a decision were: Former Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran&#8217;s Tamil Makkal Kootani (TMK), Suresh Premachandran&#8217;s Eelam People&#8217;s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF-Suresh Wing), Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam&#8217;s All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), University Lecturers and a Civil Society Organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vigneswaran, issuing a statement, said that since the postal voting for the Presidential Election is scheduled to be held tomorrow (31), he decided to announce his stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, he had emphasised that he cannot direct his people to vote for any Sinhala politician at the Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have any ethical right to ask Tamil people to vote for Presidential candidates who, don&#8217;t want to discuss the 13 proposals that were put forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Under no circumstance will we give up those 13 proposals, which have been a need of Tamil people for a very long time,&#8221; Vigneswaran stressed.<br>An official statement from the five groups was scheduled to be issued last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Five Northern groups yesterday (29) decided against voting for any Sinhala candidate at the forthcoming Presidential Election. The groups that took such a decision were: Former Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran&#8217;s Tamil Makkal Kootani (TMK), Suresh Premachandran&#8217;s Eelam People&#8217;s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF-Suresh Wing), Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam&#8217;s All Ceylon Tamil Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}